More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 103

So he sat down and told her how he'd tried to get a coat o' clay, and he wasn't any wiser for all of it.

Who acts: rt · What happens: sit down, tell, try, get, not be · To what, where: woman, coat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tried	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tried	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	aux
11	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 coat	det
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	18 clay	case
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 clay	punct
18	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wiser	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wiser	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wiser	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wiser	cop
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 wiser	advmod
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 wiser	advmod
25	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sat	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 wiser	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 all	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	rt				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	rt not said here		woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	try	past · perfect	rt				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	rt not said here	a coat		of clay	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus
5	not is	past	rt			for all; any, wise property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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